”Almost all of these realists … displayed a certain nostalgia for an era of aristocratic or elite control over foreign policy, and the more stable and limited balance of power politics with which they associated it.” (331)

”an unrecognized objective and effect of Waltz’s theory of international relations is to exclude from consideration precisely the questions of political modernity that classical realists (and many others) insisted were crucial in understanding contemporary politics at both the domestic and the international level.” (329)

”The contribution of the third image – the causal role of international anarchy in the production of state action – is that it provides an opening for an account of foreign policy-making beyond individual and domestic levels of analysis.” (334)

I sin samtidskontext har Man, the state and war därför direkta politiska implikationer, menar Williams, däribland ”to defend democratic decision-making by disarming some of its most trenchant critics.” (334).

”competition spurs the actors to accomodate their ways to the socially most acceptable and successful practices. Socialization and competition are two aspects of a process by which the variety of the actors are reduced.” (Waltz, 336)

”If states will simply seek their own self-preservation, the system will ensure relative stability. The only difficulty [sic!] is if they refuse to do so – if they place some value above survival, which is precisely what metaphysical theories of man and the state tempt them to do. In such a condition, the system will not work.” (336)